Yes, an enormous World of Warcraft theme park is now open in Changzhou, China, featuring everything from roller coasters and life-size recreations of entire scenes from the hit game series. But the park, dubbed "Joyland," is completely unsanctioned by the game's developer Blizzard. Which is why it's in China, hiding out from U.S. copyright law.

I think we let China keep this theme park, they let us out of the debt we owe them, and we just call it a wash.

48 million..... That pisses me off. It would be infinitely more expensive to build over here.

No wonder people are farming work to China.

is it sadder that you made this comment or that I understood it?

And yes it would be infinitely more expensive in the US, it cost $48 million just to build X2 roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Then again, it was built with safety standards, which cost extra.

__________________"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...."

"The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly"

The more work I do advising our estimating department, the more ridiculous I think our safety standards are. I understand valuing human life, but this is starting to get ridiculous. Kudos to the Chinese.

The more work I do advising our estimating department, the more ridiculous I think our safety standards are. I understand valuing human life, but this is starting to get ridiculous. Kudos to the Chinese.

Yeah, who needs safety measures when some high school dropout is running the ride that is only maintained when it breaks?

__________________"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...."

"The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly"